Lyceum Course Opening

The Y. M. C. A. Lyceum Course was opened last Tuesday evening by the Johnson-Smily Combination. The atendance was very encouraging to the management, and the entertainment very pleasing indeed to the audience. Miss Johnson 's rendition of the tales of ïer people in her own words drew f orth ibundant applause. On her mother"s side Miss Johnson is a relative of Wiliam Dean Howells, the novelist and her work shows she has a literary abilty of her own. worthy of her family. Mr. Smily, as an entertainer, proved himself a host. He kept his audience in a continuous smile, or doubled them up with laughter. The entertainment was a brillianí opening for the course. A cali f rom 'luí: Dkmocrat thenext morning found both Miss Johnson and Mr. Smily to be just as entertaining off the platform as on. Miss Johnson is evidently troubled to keep Mr. Smily, from practicing on her. but she seems to enjoy t nevertheless. In response to our query on leaving as to where they were going from here Mr. Smily who was at the piano, carried out his habit by breaking into a song. which having pencil with us, we put down. It ran: Where do you go from here ? Say! where do you go from here? We hear the sanie oíd question Wherever we may appear. The barber as he shavs us Kemarks with an accent queer, ' Fifteen cents, t'ank 'e sah! Where do you go from here ?" And sometimes we go to a hotel In tremliling anti in fear, Perhaps they don't like "show people," And want us to '"go from here." And when we go up to Heaven, St. Peter looks out with a leer; " Oh! yes. I know you're " show people," Say, where do you go from here t "